silver plate
noun
silver tableware.
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silver plate
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silver-plate
silver-plateverb (used with object)to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
silver plate
1 Americannoun
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silver tableware.
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a coating of silver, especially one electroplated on base metal.
silver-plate
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American
[sil-ver-playt]
/ ˈsɪl vərˈpleɪt /
verb (used with object)
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silver-plates,
present (3rd person singular)
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silver-plated,
past participle, past
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silver-plating
present participle
silver plate
British
noun
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a thin layer of silver deposited on a base metal
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articles, esp tableware, made of silver plate
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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silver-platesimple
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silver-platessimple
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have silver-platedperfect
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has silver-platedperfect
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am silver-platingprogressive
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are silver-platingprogressive
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is silver-platingprogressive
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have been silver-platingperfect progressive
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has been silver-platingperfect progressive
Past
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silver-platedsimple
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had silver-platedperfect
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was silver-platingprogressive
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were silver-platingprogressive
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had been silver-platingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of silver plate
First recorded in 1520–30
Example Sentences
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“Oh, ‘we’ve lost this giant silver plate in this huge special box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the fresco, it is served on a silver plate and a wine chalice stands next to it.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
During arti, you stood in front of the gods and offered them light, clutching a silver plate holding ghee-drenched cotton ball flames and marigolds.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
That would make the silver plate a pretty specific allegory for the Eastern Roman emperor as God’s designated champion on earth, like David, the victorious underdog in the struggle against the Philistine giant.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
I glance at a silver plate on the wall, which shows only a distorted and blurred image of myself.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
There would be mismatched antique silver-plate utensils in the kitchen drawers, and the beds would be dressed in neutral-color linens from West Elm and Pine Cone Hill.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
Patinated brass handles give Nalata Nalata’s Ihada silver-plate flatware a graceful antique look; $230 for a five-piece set.
From Architectural Digest ● Dec. 5, 2014
Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2011
Design becomes art in Lino Sabattini's silver-plate tea and coffee service and Ernest Race's shaped steel-rod chair.
From Time Magazine Archive
They said there’d been two white twins from America riding ’round Chatham on two white stallions whilst toting two of the fanciest pearl-handle, silver-plate pistols just like the one the Preacher said he found.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Tell me of all the riches and jewels—the gold and silver-plates you eat from, the jewelry you have to wear, the rich silks—all of it!
From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson
Items that are silver-plated can sometimes be marked as well, although their value is generally have much lower.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
It was a daguerreotype, an image imprinted on a sheet of silver-plated copper coated in light-sensitive chemicals.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Alex & Ani’s expandable wire matte gold or silver-plated bangles were inspired by Orange County’s ocean and palm trees and, in the distance, the Santa Ana Mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
Modern photography was born in 1839, when Louis Daguerre refined a process for capturing an image on silver-plated copper.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
The starter’s silver-plated gong rang, a sprocket turned, a valve opened, and the engine whooshed to life on exquisitely machined shafts and bearings.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
To explain more clearly, it was the practice of most silver platers to use an alloy for silver-plating.
From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey
Later they began to do the same thing with silver, silver-plating especially the ornaments of horses and carriages.
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
The art of silver-plating was invented at Sheffield by Thomas Bolsover, an ingenious mechanic, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and extensively applied by Mr. Joseph Hancock.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
As commercial cyanide of potassium generally contains an unknown percentage of other salts, which, however, do not interfere with its value for the purpose of silver-plating, the simplest procedure is as follows.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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